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Yellow Willow

• Weeping Willow
• Salix alba L. var

The weeping willow can be spotted amongst other trees of the canopy by the clouds of sweeping spring color and progressive height of clumps of its branches. Often planted for ornamental purposes, the weeping willow grows quickly and provides great shade,  especially in moisture-rich areas.

Aerial Aulavik

• Aulavik National Park of Canada
• Banks Island
• Northwest Territories, Canada

Taken out the window of a helicopter in gusty winds with a handheld panoramic camera, this photograph reveals the erosion features usually associated with the badlands. The tongue of Arctic ice water attests to the cold temperatures in this arid Polar Desert.

Ice Edge

• Aulavik National Park of Canada
• Banks Island
• Northwest Territories, Canada

Winds across the surface of Nangmagvik Lake push chunks of ice to mound up as they reach the shore where they melt and congeal into larger masses. As the direction of the wind changes, the lighter ice will be pushed back across the water, to accumulate at another edge of the lake.

Sirmilik Hoodoos

• Sirmilik Hoodoos
• Sirmilik National Park of Canada
• Nunavut, Canada

Usually, hoodoos are associated with the badlands. Reminiscent of snow cones, these structures actually have small cap rocks, a sign of differences in erosion. These hoodoo formation are on Bylot Island in the Eastern Arctic in Sirmilik (meaning ‘place of glaciers’) National Park of Canada.

Tanquary Fiord

• Quttinirpaaq National Park of Canada
• Ellesmere Island
• Nunavut, Canada

In the right foreground of this panoramic view of Tanquary Fiord an oblique strip of water points to a V-shaped dip in the line of glaciers and mountains which leads to Lake Hazen some 50 miles away.

Tundra Pond

• Aulavik National Park of Canada
• Banks Island
• Northwest Territories, Canada

Across the tundra many ponds teem with mosquito larvae and plant life in the short growing period in the Arctic where there is sunlight 24 hours a day. The low-lying hills break the edge between water and cloud.

Carpet of Light

• Kluane National Park and Reserve of Canada
• Yukon Territory, Canada

Fall colors lit by bands of sunlight are quickly darkened by cloud shadows in a gathering storm. This mountain at the upper end of Cottonwood Creek is part of the Dalton Range in the St Elias Mountains.

Carpet of Light

• Quttinirpaaq National Park of Canada
• Ellesmere Island
• Nunavut, Canada

This historic photograph captured the largest North American Ice Shelf before it split in two. The ice shelf of frozen fresh water, now ten percent of the size when it was discovered during the search for the Northwest Passage over 100 years ago, lies on the northern edge of Ellesmere Island on the north coast of Canada in the Arctic.

Mount Logan and Half Moon

• Kluane National Park and Reserve of Canada
• Yukon Territory, Canada

Still rising in height, Mount Logan is Canada’s highest mountain (5959 m or 19,551 ft) and the largest in base circumference in the world. This photograph was taken from the open window of an unpressurized helicopter at sunset on the eve of the 30th anniversary of the first Apollo lunar landing. Using the same type of camera that astronauts were using to photograph the Earth from the moon, I photographed the half moon from the thinning air above the Earth.

Seracs

• Kluane National Park and Reserve of Canada
• Yukon Territory, Canada

One of the most difficult aerial photographs that I have composed from an open helicopter window is this view above the seracs and crevasses at the toe of the Lowell Glacier. The sharp pinnacles of ice resemble large teeth, ready to crunch our fragile craft that was pitched up during a left bank maneuver.

The Gate

• Nahanni National Park Reserve of Canada
• Northwest Territories, Canada

The Gate is a rock feature on the Naha Dehé (South Nahanni River) as it winds through Nahanni National Park, inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List in 1978. This photograph was taken through an open window of a high wing floatplane, avoiding both wing and float.

Boreal Autumn

• Prince Albert National Park of Canada
• Saskatchewan, Canada

Grass mats surround this glacial lake along the edge of the Boreal Forest, named after Boreas, the Greek god of the North Wind. The fall brings out the golden color change of the deciduous conifer, the tamarack (larch) (Larix laricina).

Pink Granite

• Pukaskwa National Park of Canada
• Lake Superior, Ontario, Canada

Large blocks of granite are typical of the Canadian Shield with growth of white spruce (Picea glauca) and white birch (Betula papyrifera). The vast pink granite of the Lake Superior shoreline is buffeted by the winds and waves of intense and often sudden storms.

Red Cliffs

• Prince Edward Island National Park of Canada
• Atlantic Ocean
• Prince Edward Island, Canada

The rust red color of the sandstone cliffs is from the iron oxides in the rock and soil. At low tide clusters of life born by the sea rest along sand and rock.

Banded Blue

• Inland Sea, Qatar

The blue waters of the Gulf of Iran (Persian Gulf, Arabian Gulf) invaginate the northeastern corner of the Arabian Peninsula to form the Inland Sea (the Khor Al Udeid). This tidal lake separates part of Saudi Arabia from Qatar whose white sand dunes sweep down to the water’s edge.

Grand Canyon

• Grand Canyon National Park
• UNESCO World Heritage Site
• Arizona, USA

This is an incredible opportunity to view part of the hidden evolution of Earth as a planet. Differences in the resistance of the sedimentary rocks to the wearing down by natural forces over thousands of years have produced the terraced or stair-step topography.

Sabratha Theatre

• Archeological Site of Sabratha
• UNESCO World Heritage Site
• District of Zawia, Libya
• Sahara Desert

The panoramic camera used to acquire this photograph was tripod mounted and leveled so that the distant horizon of the Mediterranean is centered and all columns vertical. The rectangle of blue sky and darker blue water is the focal point, drawing the eye through the past to the reality of the present.

Sahara Sand Dunes

• Ubari Sand Sea
• Sahara Desert
• Ubari, Libya

Unmatched in its extent and economic impact, the Sahara desert sprawls across Africa, shifting its boundaries as planet Earth continues its dynamic evolution. The dunes owe their reddish color to minerals such as iron, attached to the minute grains of quartz that comprise the sand.

Ubari Oasis

• Ubari Sea Sand
• Sahara Desert
• Ubari, Libya

Not a mirage, this cluster of green vegetation marks a source of water in an otherwise arid landscape. Evidence supports the existence of the Ubari Sand Sea for at least 100,000 years, a time when lake waters surrounded some of this land that had remained above the surface.

Cheetah on Mound

Crimson Breasted Bee-Eater

Hippo Yawn

Leopard in Tree

Snake Eagle

Two Rollers

White-Browed Coucal

Whooping Cranes in Saskatchewan

• Whooping Crane
• Grus americana
• Saskatchewan, CA

Two migrating Whooping Cranes feed in an agricultural field in southern Saskatchewan, a traditional staging site.

Flock from Above

• Whooping Crane
• Grus americana
• Saskatchewan, CA

An aerial image of migrating Whooping Cranes in southern Saskatchewan, a traditional staging site.

Wetlands of Wood Buffalo National Park

• Wood Buffalo National Park, Atla./N.W.T.

An aerial image of the wetlands of Wood Buffalo National Park, the only natural breeding site for the Whooping Crane.

A Wintering Sprague's Pipit

• Sprague's Pipit
• Anthus spragueii
• Attwater Prairie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge, TX, US

The Sprague's Pipit, a rather elusive species, can be found wintering in the grasslands in Attwater Prairie Chicken NWR in Texas, US.

Red Knot Pair

• Red Knot
• Calidris canutus rufa
• Bunche Beach, FL, US

The rufa Red Knot travels from its breeding area in the central Canadian Arctic to many wintering sites including the central Gulf Coast of Florida.

A Lone Piping Plover

• Piping Plover
• Charadrius melodus
• Bunche Beach, FL, US

This Piping Plover, 9E, travelled from its breeding area in Prince Edward Island, CA to the central Gulf Coast, Florida to winter.

Two Lesser Flamingos

• Lesser Flamingo
• Phoeniconaias minor
• Lake Bogoria, KE

The caustic waters of Lake Bogoria, Kenya is one of the Lesser Flamingo's preferred habitats within the East African Rift Valley. The Lesser Flamingos get their pink colour when they ingest cyanobacteria which contain carotenoid pigments.